Delano Joins Men’s Soccer Staff as Assistant Coach

(Photo: Harvard Athletic Communications).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Pieter Lehrer, the Virginia B.
and James O. Welch, Jr. '52 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Soccer,
has announced the hiring of Jonathan Delano as an assistant coach
for the Crimson. Delano will work under long-time mentor Lehrer,
who was named head coach of the Harvard men’s program in
April.

“I feel very fortunate to have secured Jon as my top
assistant here at Harvard,” said Lehrer. “He comes to
us having been a successful head coach for both the men's and
women's programs at Dominican for many years. He is one of the best
recruiters I have ever been around and he is already one of the top
10 assistant coaches in the country. Adding him to the staff, I am
fortunate that I will be learning just as much from him as he will
be learning from me.”

Delano comes to Cambridge after a successful career at Dominican
University in San Rafael, Calif. A 2003 graduate of the
institution, Delano began his coaching career as an assistant at
his alma mater, along with coaching local high school and
club-level teams. He was elevated to head coach of the Dominican
women’s team in 2006 and garnered two California Pacific
Coast Conference Coach of the Year awards.

Due to his success with the women’s program, Delano was
elevated to director of soccer in 2009, putting him in charge of
both the men’s and women’s teams in their first year
competing at the NCAA Division II level. Delano also had stints as
the director of athletic development at Dominican, and the head
men’s and women’s golf coach.

Delano was a two-sport athlete at Dominican, competing in soccer
and basketball. He was born in nearby Santa Rosa, Calif.